Glove



No. 750,443. PATENTED JAN. 26; 1904.

F. W. FARRANT.

GLOVE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 29. 1903.

no MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented January 26, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION formin g part of Letters Patent No. 750,443, dated January 26, 1904. Application filed September 29, 1903. Serial No. 175,016. (No model.)

T0 at whom it'may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. FARRANT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in gloves, and particularly gloves of that class which are used for driving, handling metals, and for like services. I

It consists of the improved glove which I will hereinafter describe and claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view of the pattern with the thumb-opening cut out. Fig. 2 is a view of the thumb-piece adapted to fit into the opening shown in the pattern of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view of the reinforce as cut out. Fig. 4; shows the glove with the partsin position.

In the variousniethods of cutting and making gloves, and especially those used for heavy worksuch as the handling of hotmetals, driving teams, zc-it is the object to so dispose the seams as to get them out of the way of wear as much as possible. Various methods of cutting are adapted for this purpose.

In my invention I have shown the body of the glove A having an elongated egg-shaped opening 2 cut out at the point where the thumb-piece is to be inserted. The thumbpiece is cut to fit this opening, and in order to carry the seam away from the point of wear it is cut as shown in pattern Fig. 2, the outer edges of the body portion 3 converging upward from the base to what will be the tip of the thumb, and it is there cut into two segments uniting in a V-shaped notch, as at 4. From the outer edges and base of the body portion 3 a cut is made on curved lines, as shown at 5, meeting in a small convex curve 6 at the top and nearly one-half the distance from the bottom to the top of the thumb-piece. By thus cutting the part the curved edges 5 will fit, so as to be stitched along the two sides of the opening 2, and the outer edges of the part 3 will be brought together upon the outside or back of the thumb, thus leaving the short inner side, which is represented by the distance between the notch 4 and the curve 6, as the inner side of the thumb.

In order to reinforce the seam which forms the union between the base of the thumb and the opening 2, I form a reinforce 7 which is made oval, one side being made more convex than the other. A slit is cut from the narrowest end substantially parallel with the side of greatest convexity, as at 8, and a small open notch is cut out, as shown at 9, near the larger end of this reinforce. This forms a sort of tongue 10 at the junction of the slit 8 and the upper end of the cutout portion 9, this tongue being turned upwardly when the reinforce has been slipped down over the thumb the reinforce will then be found to entirely surround the base of the thumb and to cover the seam which forms the union between the thumb and the body of the glove, while the tongue 10 will extend up on the inner side of the thumb, to which it is riveted. The inner portion of this part 7 thus extends over the seam and well into the palm of the hand, where it is stitched and riveted in place. I have thus a continuous reinforce extending entirely around the base of the thumb and having a greater width and security over the part where the principal wear takes place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1S-

1. The combination in a glove of a body portion having an elongated egg-shaped opening for the thumb, a piece having the convergent outer edges curved and uniting in a notch at the top and the interior curves 5 adapted to be stitched into the palm-opening whereby the seam of the thumb is carried to the back thereof and a reinforce extending around the base of the thumb and over the uniting-seam thereof, said reinforce fashioned from a piece which is of oval shape and has one long edge made of greater convexity than the opposite end, and slitted between the edge to form a tongue which when the reinforce-piece is slipped over the thumb, is turned upwardly and will extend up on the inner side of the thumb.

2. The combination in a glove of the body and palm portion having an elongated eggshaped out made to form the thumb-opening, the thumb-piece having the sides convergent from the base to the tip and curved to form an inwardly-extending notch central of the top of the tip, convexed curves from the lower ends of the divergent sides extending upwardly into the body and adapted to be stepped into the thumb-opening of the glove, a continuous reinforce extending around the base of the thumb covering the seam by which it is united to the palm, said reinforce fashioned from a piece of substantially oval form,

having one long edge made more convex than nally parallel with one edge and provided with a cut-out portion in the lower portion thereby forming a tongue which when the reinforcepiece is slipped over the thumb, is turned upwardly and will extend up on the inner side of the thumb, the inner part of the reinforcepiece extending well into the palm portion of the glove.

In testimony whereof I have hereuntoset my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK W. FARRANT. Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE,

the other said piece being slitted longitudi- J ESSIE C. BRODIE. 

